What books are you reading right now?

kyle22 · Post by **kyle22** » December 13th, 2007, 9:55 am

What books are you reading right now? I'm reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I like it a lot so far.

shinobi-13 · Post by **shinobi-13** » December 17th, 2007, 6:48 pm

I just finished the myth of sisyphus and I (try-too much work) to read "existentialism from dostoyevsky to sartre" by walter kaufmann

Sinkhole2012 · Post by **Sinkhole2012** » December 22nd, 2007, 11:35 pm

The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick

December 30th, 2007, 12:03 pm

I just finished up The House Of The Dead by Dostoyevsky. I recommend it for people who like books about prison.

keith24 · Post by **keith24** » December 31st, 2007, 7:11 pm

I am currently reading "Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity" by Karl Jaspers.

epimetheus · Post by **epimetheus** » December 31st, 2007, 10:35 pm

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged, Miguel de Unamuno Tragic Sense of Life, and The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf.

elililly · Post by **elililly** » January 1st, 2008, 2:41 pm

I thought I'd already replied to this, but couldn't find it...

Fred Coppleston's "A History of Philosophy, Part II Kant"

plus various textbooks & papers for Uni.

siomay · Post by **siomay** » January 2nd, 2008, 11:33 am

I just read The Rebel by Albert Camus.

garagebandguy · Post by **garagebandguy** » January 25th, 2008, 2:50 am

I just finished "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand

I'm now over half way through "The Fountainhead" also by Ayn Rand

these books have changed my life, although I still don't accept her philosophy 100%

January 25th, 2008, 5:09 pm

garagebandguy wrote:I just finished "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand

Philosophically, I disagree with Rand on most of her philosophy. But that book is a great influence on me. More than philosophy, I like its political message. I think it does a great job at showing the utilitarian benefit of freedom and the inherent flaws of government.

coffeeprincess · Post by **coffeeprincess** » February 8th, 2008, 1:51 am

I'm knees deep in Crowley's Liber Aleph.

I am also almost done with The Sign of Four, a lovely little Sherlock Holmes novel.

Next, I don't know. Any suggestions?

lj_elkin · Post by **lj_elkin** » February 9th, 2008, 12:44 am

Wilfrid Sellars' "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"
Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
and some articles, one by Tyler Burge, Thomas Nagel, and John McDowell.

anarchyisbliss · Post by **anarchyisbliss** » February 29th, 2008, 4:16 pm

Everyone should read the Curios Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and Animal Farm they're amazing!

bittercrank · Post by **bittercrank** » March 3rd, 2008, 1:35 am

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier - nice survey.

Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. Full of interesting stuff.

Much of my world-view has been shaped by the cartoons in The New Yorker.